OSCR Scottish charity profile

The Wynifred Keswick Memorial Trust

Known as The Ida Wynifred Keswick Memorial Trust

ActiveCharity number SC001504
Registered14 June 1968
Main locationDumfries And Galloway
Legal formTrust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC001504
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
A specific local point, community or neighbourhood
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
DG7 1NA
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OSCR note: correction to legal name as per trust deed

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Provide and maintain residences for the benefit of elderly people who by reason of age or other infirmity are unable to work or are in reduced circumstances.

Charitable purposes

  • the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Beneficiaries

  • Older People
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

for the benefit of elderly people who by reason of age or other infirmity are unable to work in regular employment and are in necessitous or reduced circumstances with special preference being given to persons who have resided for at least three years in the said Parish.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endTotal incomeDonationsCharitable activities incomeTrading incomeInvestment incomeOther incomeTotal expenditureRaising fundsCharitable activities spendingOther spendingStaffReturn received
28 February 2025£61,130£0£0£0£0£0£85,316£0£0£005 December 2025
28 February 2024£90,662£0£0£0£0£0£80,634£0£0£004 April 2025
28 February 2023£73,244£0£0£0£0£0£80,935£0£0£0011 January 2024
28 February 2022£93,510£0£0£0£0£0£81,504£0£0£0014 November 2022
28 February 2021£178,072£0£0£0£0£0£162,419£0£0£0011 November 2021

Figures are those reported by the charity and supplied in the OSCR bulk download. Blank facts remain distinct from zero.

04 Contact record

Principal office or trustees address

Address supplied to OSCR
Gillespie Gifford & Brown LLP, 135 King Street, Castle Douglas
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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